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George Gordon Meade was born December 31, 1815, graduated from the 
U. S. Military Academy in June, 1835, and entered the Artillery. Resigned in 
1836 and was engaged in civilian engineering work until 1842, when he returned 
to the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant of Topographical Engineers. In 1861 he was 
made a Brigadier General of Volunteers and was in command at the battle of 
Gettysburg. At the time of his death, which occurred in Philadelphia in 1872, he 
was a Major General in the Regular Army. 

The first suggestion for the Memorial came from the Grand Army of the 
Republic, and the survivors of the Philadelphia Brigade of the Army of the 
Potomac carried it forward to its culmination in an appropriation of $200,000 
by the State of Pennsylvania for its erection. 

The sculptor of the Memorial is Charles Grafly and the architects, Simon and 
Simon, all of Philadelphia. The work of erection will be supervised on behalf of 
the Meade Memorial National Commission by Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, Corps 
of Engineers, the Officer in Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds. 



©rber of €xercis;es; 



Exercises called to Order 

Invocation 

Presentation of the colors and 
salute to the flag 



Remarks 



Music 



Address 



Music 

The Breaking of Ground 
with Historic Spade 



Music 

Hon. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War 
Chairman, National Meade Memorial Commission 

Rev. R. E. McBride 
Dept. Chaplain G. A. R. of the D. C. 

Dr. Henry A. Johnson, G. A. R. 
and detail of Ex-Soldiers from Pennsylvania 

Hon. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War 

yimerica 

Hon. Wm. C. Sproul, Governor of Pennsylvania 
and Chairman of the Meade Memorial 

Commission of Pennsylvania 

Stars and Stripes Forever 

The President of the United States 

Hon. Wm. C. Sproul, Governor of Pennsylvania, 

in behalf of the Meade Memorial Commission 

of Pennsylvania 
Hon. Frank B. Brandegee, Chairman Senate 

Committee on the Library, on behalf of the 

Congress of the United States 
George Gordon Meade 

Grandson, on behalf of the family 
George Gordon Meade 

Great-Grandson, on behalf of the family 



The Flag Raising on the actual site 
of the Monument 



Music 

Address 

Music 
Benediction 



George Gordon Meade 

Grandson of General Meade 

Star-Spangled Banner 

Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles 

Hail Columbia 



Rev. H. K. Fulton, Chaplain in the Reserve Corps 
Taps 



flags in displav at exercises 

U. S.flag of the period of the Civil War, 35 U. S. flags of to-day 

surrounding the assembly 

The President's flag — The Secretary of War's flag 

The State flag of Pennsylvania — The Governor' s flag of Pennsylvania 

And many Historic flags of the Civil War 

The spade was previously used at the beginning of Lincoln and Arlington Memorials 



Music bv Army Music School Band 
W. J. Stannard, Director 



MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL MEADE MEMORIAL COMMISSION 

Hon. John VV. Weeks, Chairman 
Secretary of War 

Hon. Frank B. Brandegee 
Chairman Senate Committee on the Library 

Hon. Norman T. Gould 

Hon. Wm. C. Sproi'l 
Governor of Pennsylvania 



Lt.-Col. Clarence O. Sherrill 

Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. 

Executive and Disbursing OfHcer 

In charge of arrangements for the exercises 

MEMBERS OF THE MEADE MEMORIAL COMMISSION OF PENNSYLVANIA 

Hon. Wm. C. Sproul, Chairman 

Mr. Isaac R. Pennypacker, Vice-Chairman 

Hon. George E. Alter, Attorney General 

Hon. Edward W. Patton 

Col. W. J. Patterson Col. Hugh R. Fulton 

Sergt. Henry I. Yohn Mr. John E. Baker 

Col. John B. Patrick, Secretary-Treasurer 



COMMITTEE FOR THE RECEPTION OF GUESTS AT THE EXERCISES 

Frederick D. Owen, Chairman 
Lt.-Col. J. D. Carmody, U. S. A. Capt. Frederick B. Hyde, U. S. A. 

Lt.-Comdr. L. p. Clephane, U. S. N. Dr. Edwin A. Hill 
assisting 
Members from the Loyal Legion in the District of Columbia 
Maj. Gen. John L. Clem, U.S.A. Capt. Robert Armour, U. S. Vols. 

Brig. Gen. Charles W. Hobbs, U.S. A. Capt. Andrew J. Huntoon, U. S. Vols. 

Brig. Gen. Henry H. C. Dunwoody, U.S. A. Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, U. S. Vols. 
Col. Henry C. Rizer, U. S. Vols. 1st Lieut. Thomas H. McKee, U. S. Vols. 

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FLAG BEARERS AND GUARD OF HONOR 

Dr. Henry A. Johnson in charge 
Members of the Department of the Potomac 

AND Ex-SoLDIERS FROM StATE OF PeNNSYLVANI.\ 

James F. Falbey S. F. Hamilton E. F. K. Will 

Jeremiah Witt John M. Kline Richard Schilling 

Samuel Bricker H. F. Dunbar W. J Weiss 

C. H. Morgan Alfred H. Hurlburt Lewis Vessels 

A detail of U. S. Soldiers from 3d Battalion, 64th Inf., Fort Washington 

Serving as Guard 

and 

A detail of U. S. Marines from Marine Barracks 

Serving as Ushers 



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